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darth_ender
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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6-Mar-2012, 7:26 PM

georgec said:

I just simply don't care about Star Wars anymore. What that means is that nothing outside of the UOT or some of the 90s EU material interests me. The franchise is so bloated and worn out.

That's not to say that current SW material can't be interesting or well done. I hear good things about CW, but to be honest it all kind of sounds silly. "Savage Oppress"? Why not just name a character, "Bad Guy"?

Then there's the whole resurrecting Darth Maul thing that times with the 3D TPM release. An obvious stunt to rope in more people who didn't like the prequels yet can't turn away completely.

I digress.

I still love Star Wars, but I have learned to compartmentalize what I care about and what I don't.  As I've said many times, I discount most of the EU, and hold the PT on a lower level than the OT in my personal canon, but still do enjoy them.  And as I've also repeatedly said, I enjoy one portion or another and different times, for instance, if I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy that I love so much, I'm ignoring the PT, and if I'm watching the PT that I enjoy but not as nearly as much as the OT, I ignore the Thrawn trilogy; they're different Star Wars universes for me.

I have been interested in the Clone Wars stuff (though I haven't seen a whole lot of it), especially considering the good reviews and the fact that it covers material that should have been covered in the actual PT, but hearing about the above named boneheads ("Bad Guy" and "Darth Torso"), I really lost a lot of hope in the series.  That makes two very bad moves, and if they'd left it at just Oppress (preferably with a different name), then it could have at least been a hiccup rather than a absolute error in my mind.